Actions before CRAN submission

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See the CRAN release section in Hadley's R Packages (2e) for a good list of actions to take before CRAN submission. These include:

• usethis actions
  • usethis::use_news_md()
  • usethis::use_cran_comments()
  • usethis::use_release_issue()
• Documentation
  • Full check through documentation. Ensure units, bounds, and descriptions are accurate and concise.
  • Freshen up README.md (incl adding CRAN install instructions)
  • Freshen up NEWS.md --> revert to a 0.1.0 version
  • Add @returns and @examples for each exported function
  • Check that DESCRIPTION fits advice in this section of R packages
  • Add a copyright holder in DESCRIPTION
• Extra admin
  • Check licensing in included files
  • Dennis Vaughan's extrachecks
  • This collaborative list of extra actions
• Software
  • devtools::check() working
  • urlchecker::url_check()
  • devtools::build_readme()
• Finally
  • devtools::check(remote = TRUE, manual = TRUE)
  • devtools::check_win_devel()
  • devtools::release(pkg = ".", check = TRUE, args = NULL)